Solar Impulse 2 flies 4,500 miles on solar

Congratulations to Solar Impulse 2, the 100 percent solar-powered/solar-charged plane flying around the world that, today, successfully finished a record-breaking 4,480-mile, 5-day, non-stop, flight from Japan to Hawaii powered by nothing but the solar-electrons of the sun!

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Christof Demont-Heinrich is founder, creator and editor of SolarChargedDriving.Com, which he launched in September 2009. A journalism professor at the University of Denver (DU), Demont-Heinrich is a lifelong environmentalist who loves to bird, hike, camp, and bike. As passionate as he is about the environment -- and about promoting the synergy between solar power and electric cars, he is equally passionate about writing.